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U.S. airlines ask for delay of new urine-test rule (Detroit News)

Posted by admin on August 21st, 2008

The airlines’ request follows a similar petition by railroad trade associations on Aug. 6. Also, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the second-largest U.S. railroad, and eight labor unions filed a legal call to answer to the new rule Aug. 13.

The Transportation Department has current the industry requests and “will respond to these petitions,” the agency uttered in an e-mailed statement, without core added specific.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced the repaired rule June 30 as a means by which anything is reached to divide down on drug-test cheating. The rule covers 12.1 million employers, workers and test monitors.

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Expert says Pakistan fast bowler can be cleared of doping (International Herald Tribune)

Posted by admin on August 21st, 2008

The 25-year-old fast bowler was accompanied by his lawyer and curative expert Dr. Graham Durgan to Switzerland instead of results of the test's B sample.

“We will appeal to the IPL drug tribunal and point out the difference in the test results,” Asif was quoted in The News on Wednesday. “I am hopeful of being cleared strange to say now.”

The IPL drug tribunal comprises maker Indian test captain Sunil Gavaskar, Dr.

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Toddler Swallows Meth (KIMA Yakima)

Posted by admin on August 19th, 2008

“He had actually eaten it and overdosed on it.” We’ll call this grandmamma “Jane” to preserve her identity. She talks of a horrible experience; learning that her two year antique grandson had eaten meth, gotten very sick, and had to be flown to Seattle for treatment.
“He was convulsing and he was in intensive care,” she says, jolt her head. “ICU..that’session pretty serious.”

But now, Jane believes family members who should be held criminally responsible are getting off the hook. A piss test cleared the dam of any recent meth use. Child Protective Services also looked into the case. Jane explains “They do a urinalysis upon Mom and she’s clean by then? (Read the full post about ‘Toddler Swallows Meth (KIMA Yakima)’…)

ABMC Completes Series A Debenture Offering (Centre Daily Times)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

American Bio Medica Corporation is a biotechnology company that develops, manufactures and markets accurate, cost-effective immunoassay diagnostic exhibition kits, including some of the world’sitting most effective point of collection tests for drugs of abuse. The Company and its worldwide distribution network mark the workplace, government, corrections, clinical and educational markets. ABMC’session Rapid Drug Screen(R), Rapid One(R), Rapid TEC(R), RDS(R) InCup(R), Rapid TOX(R) and Rapid TOX Cup(R) products test because the presence or brown study of drugs of abuse in urine, while OralStat(R) and Rapid STAT(TM) tests for the presence or absence of drugs of abuse in oral fluids.

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Police log: 12 arrested during warrant sweep (The York Dispatch)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

Deputies from the York County Sheriff’s Office and York County grown up moral trial officers arrested 12 people Saturday during an enforcement detail. Arrested were:

* Douglas Patterson, 46, of York City, probation detainer for heinous crime thievery by unlawful taking.

* Brittany Haar, 20, of Red Lion, probation detainer for drug paraphernalia possession, new charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

* Dural Scales, 29, of York City, new charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

* Maurice Walker, 39, of York City, four York County Common Pleas tribunal warrants for three counts of felony deal out in small portions theft, two counts or resisting arrest and defiant trespass.

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Jockey Club calls for upgraded lab system for horse testing (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

To further clean up Thoroughbred racing’s realize and image, a key panel has recommended that states and racetracks move nearly a top-level system of labs for equine put drugs into testing.

The Thoroughbred Safety Committee also urged the industry to adopt uniform rules on license suspensions, collection of injury data, and checking during the term of a kind of cheating called “milkshaking.”

The four new recommendations from the committee came at The Jockey Club’s annual roundtable discussion in New York steady Sunday.

“Medication issues continue to haunt this industry and they are and will continue to be a priority in the place of this committee, as evidenced by variant of today’s recommendations,” panel chairman Stuart S.

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Pass to play: Steroid testing moves on to fall sports (Humble Observer)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

“Because they will trial during football season, we’ll see the numbers increase a little with all the fall sports,” Malmstrom said, “but I dress in’t think they will increase dramatically.”

Kite believes numbers will augment due to the sheer amount of football participants.

“There will most likely be more positive tests because instead of 10,000 there will be at least double that tested,” Kite said.

Out of the 195 schools selected at random, only human being, Kingwood Park High School, was chosen as being testing from the Greater Humble area.

Out of more than 500 athletes who participated in UIL athletics last year at Kingwood Park, which only housed learner and sophomore students, 30 were selected for the double sightless testing.

“The testing went real smoothly,” Malmstrom said. (Read the full post about ‘Pass to play: Steroid testing moves on to fall sports (Humble Observer)’…)

Friendswood Police Action (Friendswood Journal)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

Aug. 6 (6:51 p.medley.) ? A 57-year-old Friendswood woman was charged with DWI after she was reported as driving erratically without interruption W. Parkwood. She was lethargic and unable to keep her balance. The woman failed a field sobriety test and refused to participate in a drug recognition exam. She was found to be in possession of hydrocodone, Xanex and Soma without a prescription. She was also charged with Possession of a Dangerous Drug and two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance.

Aug. 3 (2:05 a.m.) ?A 25-year-old Manvel man was charged with DWI posterior he was observed driving erratically on W. Parkwood. Officers located him in the 3200 block of W. Parkwood. (Read the full post about ‘Friendswood Police Action (Friendswood Journal)’…)

New battleground, even uglier war (Hawkesbury Gazette)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

IT'S official. Drug taking is very lately a recognised Olympic sport — at least as far as the bookies are concerned. Some international sports betting companies have framed markets on which sport will be the first to have an athlete stripped of a medal because of a failed drug test.

Not surprisingly, weightlifting is the short-priced favourite at even cash, although observers will have noted that this is the same sport that has had a plethora of athletes banned before they level got to China. Just this week, female Indian weightlifter Monika Devi was prevented from boarding her plane and Greece has lost 11 of its weightlifting team to positive drug tests.

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Thinking of a nip/tuck? Quit smoking first (Austin American-Statesman)

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2008

Lisa Morrison has always considered herself a pillar of health. She ate organic food, exercised and meditated. The alone glitch in her otherwise rigid existence was the pack of Marlboros that she had inhaled daily since age 18.

By the time Morrison, now 50, went to see Dr. Vincent Giampapa, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Montclair, N.J., she had tried everything to quit. “Acupuncture, the patch, hypnosis,” she said. “Nothing worked.”

Nothing, that is, until 2007, when Giampapa told her she would have to toss her beloved cigarettes if she wanted a neck- and eye-lift. “The doctor strongly suggested that if I wanted to heal properly I needed to quit,” Morrison uttered.

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